The Indianapolis journal., 1887-05-18

await his coming. Eubank, Albright, Figures
and Hardy were placed under arrest, the coro-
ners jury having rendered verdict ssas princi-
pal and others abettors unknown to the jury
and Hamilton was not arrested simply because
of the supposed dangerous nature Of his wounds.
After the apparent nature of the crime had
been disclosed BY the inquest the excitement in
the town became unprecedented The New Mis-
sissippian published in the same building with
torially:
IAN these facts glare and glare at us az ghast-
lv as RodericlS Gam brelPs wide and death glazed
eyes glared up at the sky on that fatal night
glare at US in the awful accusation against these
men and utter the cry of Murder! Murderl as
loud and as shrill that last agonized shrek OF
The Sword and Shield was issued last Wednes-
day in mourning by friends of the dead editor,
who announced that they will keep on the course
marked out by him. OF the murder this issue
says:
1T may we'll amaze us that State Senator
could be an assassin and the leader OF a conspir-
acy TO put away man who was surely cutting
down the elaborate superstructure of wickedness
which for years ne had with unceasing care erect
ed The Judgment of many that would lead the
bad element over which he had great infiu-
in such business expressed often by
friends to Ga,ahrell has been realized.
This is Mssssippi's disgrace, and will be till
the strong hand of the law shall wipe it away.
That cry Murderi ringing out on the night air
and from the lips of the truth editor, viii
ever vibrate and reverberate through all the
hearts of the chivalrous people of Mississippi,
and by it they will be awakened from their
sum to finish the work of their fellow-citizen
VINO has laid down his pen forever"
On the same day the New Mississippian had
another editorial on the subject. of which the
following is extract:
1T is not improbable that soon another Shot
will ring out in the night and another coroner's
jury go into their solemn work; but if the
who have recently done their awful decd think
that they place their bloody hand over those
papers which have determined to speak our. and
muzzle and terrify them into the silence of ig-
nominy, they have erred. The Sword and
Shield will 60 with it's warfare for truth, and
over the grave of that dead hero that paper will
go out with arragnments of the guilty terri
BILE as before. There three editors on this
paper, and each one is willing to lay down his
life, If it must be- rather than falter in a
journalists duty and be prevented from publicly
advocating the principles he honestly cherishes
and then some one, bolder and Drawer than We
will take hold of the pape- we have left and
carry the struggle on and with all the bitter
and awful determination of invincible right war
ring against wrong"
These extracts give an idea of the pitch to
which public feeling has been aroused in Jack
son by the tragedy. but the excitement has
spread far beyond the capital town. Temper
ance societies IN Meridian, Enterprise. Crystal
Springs. Utica and other places in the State
passed vigorous resolutions condemning the
crime, calling for the punishment of the perpe-
traitors and Offering moral and material assist
ance in the prosecution.